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For the love of all that is holy, can someone explain to me WHY this book is 600 pages?! There isn't enough story to fill 600 pages, so I felt like I did a LOT of reading, but the characters and their relationship development never seemed to keep pace. I'm still reading, but I am sorely let down by this follow up to Pucking Around (which was ALSO way too long imho).

I don't think my sense of the ridiculous is well developed enough to enjoy this book. Books where both MCS seems flakey and incompetent is just not my kink.

I had to come look at the release date for this one as the writing feels so amateurish that I was convinced that this was one of the author's early releases. But.... I guess not? I don't think it's bad enough to DNF, but it's honestly a toss up at this point.

I don't know anything about JJ Mulder, but after using the words "ribald" and "skirt chasing" in the same paragraph - that was supposedly written from the perspective of a young, 20-something male - I am going to assume they're a middle aged white lady from the Midwest.

As someone who spilled a pot of boiling hot coffee down my shirt as a teenager, I can say with 100% confidence that Court is being a giant man baby about this little caffeinated dunk of his junk.

Is Goodreads randomly create 2nd and 3rd reads of books you read years ago?? It seems every few weeks GR is telling me that *I* marked a book as read but didn't include a date - which DID NOT HAPPEN. It is SO frustrating!

Ugh. The author had a great build-up to the main characters' first kiss and first time together and then had it all happen OFF PAGE?! Then, to add insult to injury, we immediately fast forward a YEAR.

STRAIGHT TO ROMANCE NOVEL JAIL, WITT.

This author just wrote that one of the characters is used to being "the man" in bed. In a gay romance novel. Where they are both men.

I'm not a gay man, but the implication that one partner - either the more submissive one or the one bottoming - is usually "the woman" seems pretty homophobic to me.

Correct me if I'm interpreting this wrong.

Honestly, how hard is it for indie authors to hire proofreaders? Less than 75 pages in and there has been nearly 10 typos (incl. character names ONE sentence apart), naming two characters the same name (which happens in real life but DOESN'T have to happen in a book), and continuity errors. It just feels insulting as a reader.

This cover model appears to be the new grey shirt man... :D

I am really enjoying this book, but it 100% reads like Dr. Spencer Reid fanfic (and I am not sure that Sharp has bothered to develop her MMC beyond that crutch).

Is it just me or are these journal entries written more like flashbacks than how a person would write in a diary?

Dear authors,

Can you PLEASE cut it out with the third act breakup trope? There are better conflicts out there. Please. I am begging for a LITTLE originality.

Sincerely,
A frustrated reader

I feel like this author has never talked to a teacher in her life. In what world of school shootings, safety protocols, and general professionalism does Mack think teachers' best friends and boyfriends can just wander into a high school and interrupt their classes?! Pfffft.

I know this book is supposed to be dual POV, but I swear they read the exact same. I have to keep checking chapter titles to see what's going on.

The FMC is using tears to get her way and garner sympathy. Fucking yikes.

I swear to gawd, if this author says that the MFC is "so tiny", "so small", "just a little thing" ONE MORE FREAKIN' TIME, I am going to throw my kindle against the wall. Why do female authors reinforce this bullshit male gaze nonsense in their own books?! Establish her size/stature once in the opening pages (if you must) and then MOVE THE FUCK ON. Surely her size is the least interesting thing about her, right?!

So here I was, flipping pages thinking that this enemies to lovers hockey romance wasn't really adding anything new to the genre when the deep feels just kinda snuck up on me and smack me in the face. Ouch.

I have read too much of this book to give up now; I swear I will finish it someday.

I can normally count on Riley Hart for a sweet, sexy, well-written romp, but this doesn't feel as well-written - and it is certainly more repetitive - than her previous books. So far this seems like there wasn't enough story to tell, so she just wrote the same thing three ways and then moved on to the next chapter. Disappointed, but I am going to keep pushing for at least a little bit longer.

I'm finding it difficult to connect with these characters and this story, which is bumming me out, because I was expecting good things from the cover and blurb.

Absolutely everything about this book is working for me. I don't want to say it too early, but this might be my 2nd 5-star read of the year!

20% into the story and so far it has been kinda ho-hum flashbacks and ho-hummier present day stuff.

Gotta admit that I am pretty disappointed with the way that this book has started out. Our MCs have a sexy fling in a bar bathroom in the opening scene and then find out they know each other (predictable book is predictable) and then we... fast forward FIVE MONTHS past their first time together and the development of all their feelings, etc.!? What kind of romance novel does that?!

Dammit! I know better than to start a Tal Bauer book near bedtime. Because he's going to suck me in with his characters and their damn EMOTIONS and I am going to want to read every last page, regardless of the fact that I am a semi-responsible adult that has to work in the morning. And sure enough... I was up until nearly 3am and that 7am alarm clock came WAY too quickly.... *facepalm*

Oh man, I know I am SO CLOSE to a finish, but I am struggling to find motivation. I just do not love this book or these characters.